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History of Alliance Fire Chief's
Chief | Description of Service |
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Louis Buechsenstein | Fathered the Alert Fire Department in 1891. On March 20, 1900 the Alert Fire Department became chartered under the name of the Alliance Fire Department. |
Chief A. Blackburn * | Served as Chief from 1900 to 1905 |
Chief Fred Brennan | Served as Chief from 1905 to 1906 |
Chief W. O. Barnes * | Served as Chief from 1906 to 1910 |
Chief James R. Keeler * | Served as Chief from 1910 to 1912 |
Chief Penrose E. Romig | Started on the Fire Department on February 10, 1909 and served as Chief from 1913 to 1914. |
Chief Chas. (Charles) L. Hill * | Started on the Fire Department in 1913 and served as Chief from 1914 to 1915 and again from April 1924 to March 1925. |
Chief George Hill * | Started on the Fire Department in 1906 and served as Chief from April 1915 to March 1916. |
Chief Leonard E. Pilkington | Started on the Fire Department in 1910 and served as Chief from April 1916 to March 1919. |
Chief Frank L. Merritt | Started on the Fire Department in 1912 and served as Chief from March 1919 to September 1919. |
Chief Ward Hall | Started on the Fire Department in 1912 and first served as Chief from September 1919 to March 1921. Chief Hall was re-elected Chief in April 1925 and served till 1944. |
Chief Clarence J. (Bud) Schafer | Started on the Fire Department in 1912 and served as Chief from March 1921 to March 1924. |
Chief Vaughn W. Germain | Started on the Fire Department in 1938 and was appointed Chief in 1944 by the City Manager when changes in the State Laws allowed the City Manager to select a Fire Chief. He served from 1944 to 1945. Chief Germain was reappointed Chief in 1946 and served until 1948. |
Chief Dick Engelhaupt | Started on the Fire Department in 1941 and was appointed Chief from 1945 to 1946. Chief Engelhaupt was reappointed Chief in 1948 and served until 1954. |
Chief L. L. "Shorty" Schommer | Joined the Fire Department in 1949 was appointed Chief in 1954 and served until 1962. |
Chief L. E. "Bus" Overstreet | Was appointed temporary Chief in February 1962 and was appointed Chief later in 1962 and served as Chief till his retirement from the Fire Department in 1982. |
Chief Roger D. McGrath | Was hired as the first full-time Fire Chief on September 1, 1982 and served until he resigned from the Fire Department on July 25, 1986. |
Chief Howard J. "Bud" Taylor Jr | Joined the Fire Department in 1967 as a volunteer and was hired as a firefighter in 1969. He was appointed Chief in 1986 and served as Chief until he retired from the fire department on October 25, 1995. |
Chief John Yoakum | Was appointed Chief on November 4, 1996 and served until March 6, 1998 |
Chief David T. McCarty | Was appointed Chief on September 14, 1998 and served until he retired on October 4, 2007. |
Chief Troy D. Shoemaker | Was appointed Chief on January 2, 2008 and is currently serving as Chief. |
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